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Mystery Patch Contradicts Intentions
News The company scrambled on Wednesday morning to figure out why a patch had been issued through its Windows Update service, when the software maker had declared on Tuesday that it would not issue any fixes in December.
[December 11, 2003, 8:15]
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Brings Three Critical Fixes
News The "moderate" patch addresses vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Malware Protection Engine that could allow a successful denial-of-service attack. Microsoft has released three critical patches and one update with a "moderate" rating as part of its...
[May 15, 2008, 13:07]
Windows Image-handling Flaw Lets In Attackers
News People who have signed up for Microsoft's update service should receive the patch download automatically. Patch Tuesday. Two of them could allow a remote intruder to gain complete control over a Windows PC, Microsoft warned in the bulletin, the...
[November 9, 2005, 9:10]
Microsoft Fixes 20 Flaws With Patch Tuesday Updates
News Microsoft is now sharing the technical details of new vulnerabilities in advance of so-called 'Patch Tuesday', to give software developers a chance to update affected products before the public announcement.
[October 15, 2008, 11:01]
'Critical' Microsoft Patch May Crash IE
News It is one of a dozen security updates that Microsoft released last week on Patch Tuesday. It plans to re-release the bulletin and patch on 22 August for all affected users. In June, it had to fix a patch that caused network connection trouble for...
[August 16, 2006, 9:05]
Homeland Security Urges Windows Fix
News The software maker released the "critical" fix on Tuesday as part of its monthly patch cycle. The agency, which also runs the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), sent out a news release on Wednesday recommending that people...
[August 11, 2006, 12:10]
Microsoft's Five Critical Security Bulletins For July
News For July's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released seven security bulletins, five of which it has rated critical. In addition to the rather esoteric threats we often see on Patch Tuesday, this month's batch includes multiple critical flaws in Office...
[July 24, 2006, 13:30]
Patch Demand Briefly Downs Windows Update
News The crush of millions of Windows users trying to patch their computers overwhelmed Microsoft's update service for several hours after new security fixes were made available, the software giant acknowledged on Wednesday.
[April 15, 2004, 8:50]
Internet Explorer Patch Is Flawed
News Microsoft released the MS06-042 security update on 8 August as part of its monthly patch cycle. It is one of a dozen security updates that Microsoft released this month on Patch Tuesday. Further compounding the troubles with the IE patch, Microsoft...
[August 23, 2006, 8:45]
Microsoft Issues Patch For Potential 'worm Hole'
News On Thursday, Microsoft issued a rare, out-of-cycle patch for a vulnerability in the Windows Server service that handles remote procedure calls, which allows programmers to run code either locally or remotely.
[October 24, 2008, 16:22]
Microsoft Patches Office 2000
News That wasn't the case when the company released service releases for Office 97; it was required to recall and patch both releases it delivered for that product. On Tuesday, the company posted Service Release 1 (SR1) to the Web for download.
[March 22, 2000, 10:54]
Microsoft Fixes Faulty IE Patch
News It is one of a dozen security updates in this month's Patch Tuesday batch. The patch would have been available on Windows Update and through patch management applications that do not use the ".cab" file, but users of Microsoft's patch management...
[August 25, 2006, 8:50]
Microsoft Delays Release Of Update Tool
News Companies expecting a new patch management tool from Microsoft this summer will have to wait a little longer. In addition to Longhorn and SP2, Microsoft is readying a service pack release for Windows Server 2003, a 64-bit edition of Windows Server...
[July 13, 2004, 16:35]
Get The Details On Microsoft's June Security Bulletins
News Install this update after you've installed the MS06-021 patch. However, the software giant's Patch Tuesday overshadowed this momentous news — at least for those of us in the security world, who spent our time updating Microsoft programs.
[June 20, 2006, 12:45]
Exploit Code Out For Windows Flaw
News Microsoft, when it released its patch on Tuesday, as ever urged users to upgrade their systems as soon as possible. Microsoft recently issued patch MS06-005 as part of its monthly security update. Microsoft announced the release of seven fixes on...
[February 17, 2006, 8:45]
Spread Of MSBlast Worm Slows
News The Update service suffered a different kind of denial-of-service attack on Tuesday as people rushed to patch their PCs. The worm is programmed to cause infected computers to send a flood of data to Microsoft's Windows Update service, starting on...
[August 13, 2003, 9:50]
Microsoft Races To Fix Security Hole
News Microsoft has decided to hold Service Pack 2 -- a collection of updates and big fixes -- for Windows 2000 until it can integrate the patch with the update. Microsoft has announced a serious security hole in its flagship Web server software, and on...
[May 2, 2001, 8:32]
'Patch Tuesday' Proves Busy For Microsoft
News For the third straight month, it's a busy "Patch Tuesday". The flaw addressed in MS06-040 is the only one in Microsoft's Tuesday patch bunch that could let an anonymous attacker remotely commandeer a Windows PC without any user interaction, Budd said.
[August 9, 2006, 8:45]
Apple QuickTime Update Includes Nine Patches
News This patch affects users of Windows Vista, XP SP2 and SP3. This patch affects users of Windows Vista, XP SP2 and SP3. This patch affects users of Mac OS X v10.4.9-v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 or later, Windows Vista, XP SP2 and SP3.
[September 10, 2008, 15:51]
Microsoft Plugs 21 Security Holes
News The company sent out a dozen security bulletins on Tuesday as part of its regular monthly patch cycle. Qualys is also suggesting that IT managers should jump on another patch, for an issue in Microsoft Exchange Server running Outlook Web Access...
[June 14, 2006, 9:55]
